The Davis Center’s Social Change Film Series 2021 Season Begins on February 18th, 2021! The Davis Center is honored to have the opportunity to work with Williamstown’s own independent cinema, Images, to host a viewing and talkback of 2020’s “Miss Juneteenth,” as part of the Social Change… Continue reading »
Community Engagement Fellows The Community Engagement Fellows are a Davis Center-trained, peer-to-peer education group. The DC Community Engagement Fellows work closely with the DC staff and are part of the Davis Center’s effort to provide education for the campus on issues of identity, power, and privilege in order… Continue reading »
Claiming Williams, 2021 An Evening with Michelle Alexander Thu, February 18th, 2021 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Michelle Alexander brings audiences profoundly necessary and meaningful insights on the practice of mass incarceration that plagues the U.S. justice system, as well as eye-opening conversation… Continue reading »
Claiming Williams, 2021: Ericka Hart February 18, 2021 @ 11 a.m. EST Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly-acclaimed speaker, and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Ericka’s work broke ground when… Continue reading »
MLK Jr. Day 2021: PDF with active links to poster seen above Participate in our call for recipes and stories around food Participate in our Word-Cloud project, “What is a word or phrase that represents us as a community? Participate in our Word-Cloud… Continue reading »
The 2020 W. Allison Davis ’24 and John A Davis ’33 Lecture Presents Race and Covid 19 with Dr. Ruha Benjamin Thursday, October 29, 2020 Due to our diligent observation of Covid-19 safety precautions and regulations, this year the W. Allison Davis ’24 and John A. Davis ’33 Lecture will be… Continue reading »
Thank you to the Zilkha crew for hosting and sharing the virtual event with adrienne maree brown on Wednesday, October 21. Click here to access the video of this event if you missed it. Thanks again, Zilkha Center!… Continue reading »
This DC-led training defines the language associated with allyship and explores the connections between the terminology, its nuances, and its implications. This training briefly reviews social identity categories from Social Identity 101 in order to understand how power and privilege to influence a person’s responsibilities as an ally. Continue reading »
Special thanks are due to the CEF team for putting together this informative and important training module. Thank you for everything, team, we’re honored to get to work with you. Please click here to access this module! … Continue reading »
Be Heard: VOICES! is seeking stories & insights for the incoming class of 2024! BE HEARD! CLICK HERE TO APPLY TO HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD VOICES affirms diversity and lays the foundations for community, inviting the class of 2024 to bring… Continue reading »